Bug 209373 – xorg-server lockup - mieqEnequeue: out-of-order valuator event; dropping.

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE

[Description cJ 2008-02-08 18:31:13 UTC]

Recently I've been having some of these.

My Xorg is locking ( taking all the CPU ; but the mouse can still move ) and the log gets a lot of these entries :

mieqEnequeue: out-of-order valuator event; dropping.
tossed event which came in late

If you stfw for them, you'll find that some people think it's due to a GPU lockup, and I really doubt it.
Never had them  before, and all the bug reports are very recent.
These messages are produced in the input components of X.
Killing X and restarting it lets you play for another round (so definitely not a GPU lockup, AFAICT)

I personnaly have an ATI GPU, radeon module.
Grepping the web I found that everyone has had them, nvidias, intels...

I don't know if the bug has been reported to upstream.

[Comment 1 cJ 2008-02-08 18:41:16 UTC]

Created attachment 142997 [details]
Installed software

[Comment 2 cJ 2008-02-08 18:46:24 UTC]

Maybe relevant emerge --info :

Portage 2.1.4.1 (default-linux/x86/2007.0/desktop, gcc-4.2.2, glibc-2.7-r1, 2.6.24-MacGyver i686)
System uname: 2.6.24-MacGyver i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 1.70GHz
CFLAGS="-pipe -fmessage-length=0 -Os -march=pentium-m"

I'll report my bug to the X bugzilla, I don't think anything can be done here.

[Comment 3 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) 2008-02-09 08:44:21 UTC]

Well, maybe you if could try with something else than xf86-video-ati-9999 ;)

Anyway - see https://wiki.ubuntu.com/X/Debugging (the "X crash, lockup, freeze, exit, or doesn't start/shutdown" section) for info required to debug similar issues). 

Also post *full* emerge --info output to the other bug.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 207106 ***

[Comment 4 cJ 2008-02-12 14:28:04 UTC]

Hi Jakub,

If I didn't report my emerge --info it's that I knew it wasn't going to be useful, even if its the usual protocol.

And if I installed a lot of 9999 stuff, it's to make sure that the bug was still present.

This bug is *not* a duplicate of bug 207106, so please remove the "is a duplicate of" stuff.

As I said, I've reported it to the X bugzilla ( https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14428 ) and it seems to have been tracked down and resolved in recent git versions.

At the moment, when not using git versions, this bug is present in X from gentoo ebuilds (which ones, I don't know exactly) and can be reproduced by grabbing wm transcient windows (like the one appearing when you M-Tab in Sawfish, fluxbox, icewm or C-T in ratpoison).

It's definitely a X bug, and this bug report on the gentoo bugzilla, is to help people that google "mieqEnequeue: out-of-order valuator event; dropping." or their other only symptom, find their way.

Thanks.

[Comment 5 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) 2008-02-12 18:14:08 UTC]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 207106 ***